[3] In the religious administration of the Meiji era, it is an organization that brings together Shinto factions nationwide.
Meiji Government set up a Student Dormitory at the Bureau of Shinto Affairs to train priests.
It served a purpose of training kyodo shoku and over time ran into issues over pantheon disputes.
[3] In 1882 it was made into a shinto sect itself due to an ordinance demanding the separation of shrine priests and missionaries or theologians, and in 1884 such missionaries of both shinto and Buddhism were suppressed.
[3] The Office of Japanese Classics Research was created as a replacement for it[citation needed].